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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speedy, well that's good news -- guess I better get my W on the block ;--)I was quite interested by what you said about the Venustas tonearm cables. You see, mine belonged originally to Jim Aud himself, and were quite thoroughly broken in when I g... | |
| Best Amp for my Pipedreams and ML 32 I disagree with Raul on this one. Yes synergy is very important, which is why I suggest you stick with Mark Levinson as your main amps and also as they're the preferred amps to match with the terrific 32 preamp.As for the low end, within rather br... | |
| Best Amp for my Pipedreams and ML 32 For synergy, I'd consider a pair of ML 33H monoblocks (or 33's if you don't think they'd be overkill) and drive them with the ML 32.The other great SS combo for the PDs (but expensive) would be the darTZeel amp(s) and preamp.. | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew, get that damn load down to 100 ohms. or even 60 ohms for heaven's sake. It will never sound right at 47K. And just set the headshell/top of cart parallel to platter. Run w/ a little xtra VTF till after 100 hours ( 2 - 2.25 gms)I'm not sayi... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Your UNI is a med to med-low compliance (15) cartridge and would be happiest in a tonearm of med to high effective mass (Graham, SME V, TriPlanar), which I think your MG Airtech is not. You've added the silver ZYX plate but that may not be enough.... | |
| Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous I second the Venustas, and I wonder if I have the same reasons as Tvad though. The objective differences are as follows, and come right out of the Purist catalog bi-wire spkr cab. for ea. product:1.) Venustas effective ga. = 8AWG Aqueous effective... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, I can't seem to remember if you said what your initial impressions were of your V, but everyone including myself was a little surprised/disappointed with their Trannies at first, until after 50 hours or so. And it just happened again with so... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, my thinking about VTF is somewhat similar to my experiences with SRA: that it's difficult to find any two of the same model cartridge, that are identical in either of those characteristics.You can physically see zero SRA, if you have the pat... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, if your friend has a 60 ohm load preset on his phono preamp (Manley?) that should be ideal since it's only 2 ohms from the optimum (62.5) I'd start at 47 just for comparison purposes, but I think he'll be happiest (after break-in etc.) with ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, I'd set it up as follows:Tonearm dead level (parallel) to the platter for now. No sense trying to dial in the SRA until the suspension is broken in after at least 150 hours.VTF 2.0 to 2.2g gms. It'll help limber up the suspension quicker and... | |
| BPT vs. Hydra 8- Your thoughts? I suppose there's nothing wrong with reporting/describing one's impressions of two (or three or four) different "power treatment" devices; but unless they are all (operationally) the same kind of device, I think making any comparisons between them... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? Thanks Chuck. Will it say "HDCD" in blue letters across my screen? (Guess there's one way to find out ;-)). | |
| Cartridge selection Yes, use your Seduction for the Technics if it can be so adapted (you won't need the RIAA section for instance. The ARC phono preamps are tube units with higher gain, and a good synergistic match for the LS-7.HO MCs are better than MMs IMO, but st... | |
| Cartridge selection I'm not clear. Do you have a Foreplay linestage or a Seduction phono preamp? (I don't see a Foreplay phono preamp on Bottlehead's site, that's why I'm asking) and your system pics don't show it.Here's what I'd do (without knowing exactly what phon... | |
| High Definition CD or HDCD - What is it exactly? Alpass -- this site has the most extensive HDCD catalog I've run across. It's a Swedish site (I think) but has an English language option:http://www.hifimusic.se/hdcd/?p=home&lang=en. |